Railroad-joint.



Patented Nov. 5, |90I.

N. BENJAMIN. RAILROAD JINT.

(Applicativi: led June 26, 1901.)

(No Model.)

[N VEN TOR Aiarmg/ UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIcEr NEWTON BENJAMIN, orELMIRA, NEW YORK.

,RAILROAD-JolN-r.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,737, dated November5, 1901.

Application filed June 26, 1901. Serial No. 66,131. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NEWTON BENJAMIN, of Elmira, in the county of Ohemungand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railroad-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to an improvement in rail-joints, the object beingto so construct the joint that it acts as a trussed bridge between theties and prevents any permanent deliection of the rails at their meetingends and also prevents any undue movement between the parts andconsequent wear on the bolts or bolt-holes. 4

With these ends in view my invention consists of the parts andcombinations of parts, as will be more fully described, and pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in side elevation of myimproved railjoint. Fig. 2 is a plan view of same. Fig. 3 is a view intransverse section through the rail and plates, and Fig. 4 is a detachedview of the main plate'. v

1 represents the adjacent ends of two rails supported in the usualmanner on ties or, if if the road be a cable or underground electric,upon yokes 2.

3 is the main connecting-plate and, as shown in the drawings, comprisesa base or -body 4, having flattened ends 5, which latter rest solidlyand atly upon the ties or yokes 2. The central portion of the base orbody 4 is bent downwardly at one side edge, forming a lower chord ortruss G, which latter rests in a vertical plane approximately under thecenter of the rails and immediately under the joint and stiffens theplate 3 against vertical deection.

at this point. The base or body 4 is Wider than the base of the rail andis provided on its inner side with an integral and upwardlyprojectingportion 9, which rests over the inner section of the base of the railand terminates in an upwardly-projecting flange or chord '7, whichlatter rests under and braces the head of the rails.

From the construction thus far described it will be seen that the flatbase or body 4 forms a trnssed support for the meeting ends of the tworails and supports the latter from below, while the integralupwardly-project-A `terminates in a plane below the tread or uppersurface of the rail. f

The flange or chord 7 and the plate 8 are secured in position by boltspassingthrough the flange and plate and the intermediate rails,andbase-plate or body 3 is secured tothe ties by spikes, the latter alsooverlapping the lower edge of the plateS and holding it solidly on thebase of the rail. struction the end sections of the rails rest solidlyon a trussed plate, and as the plate is secured solidly to the ties andthe heads of the rails braced or sustained against vertical movement ofthe iange or chord of the main plate on one side and a removable plateon the other it will be seen that the joint willbe approximately asrigid as the remainder of rails.

It is evident that many slight changes might be resorted to in therelative arrangement of parts herein shown and described withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I would haveit understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the exactconstruction of parts shown and described; but, Having fully describedmy invention, what I c im as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

1. The combination with the main orrbase plate formingpa seat or supportfor the meeting ends of two rails, one side edge of said plate beingbent downwardly at a point between its ends to form a truss, the latterresting in the vertical plane of the webs ofthe rails, the opposite sideedge of said plate being bent upwardly and terminating against the underside of the head of the rail, and an With this con? IOO independentplate resting against the outside l edge of said single plate being bentupwardly of the rails and secured thereto and to the to engage the underside of the heads of the main plate. rails.

2. The rail-jointplatemadinasinglepiece I In testimony whereof I havesigned this I5 5 having a iat upper face forming a seat forspecification in the presence of two subscribthe meeting ends of tworails, said single plate ing Witnesses.

provided with a depending truss or brace the 1 latter formed by bendingdown one edge of l NEWrl ON BENJAMIN' the plate at a point between itsends, said Witnesses:

zo truss being located about coincident with the A. YV. BRIGHT,

longitudinal axis of the plate, the opposite i W. CLARENCE DUVALL.

